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The Verge New England Cyclocross Series got underway today at the 13th annual Green Mountain Cyclocross Weekend with racers vying for series points in a total of ten categories. Under dramatic skies, Nicolas Bazin (Big-Mat Auber 93) and Crystal Anthony (cyclocrossworld.com) emerged victorious over strong Elite fields, making them the early season leaders of the…

The newly redesigned Verge New England Cyclocross Series, focused on supporting amateur and elite talent in the Northeastern US, will begin its tour of New England with the 13th annual Green Mountain Cyclocross Weekend. On September 15th and 16th, Rounds 1 and 2 of the UCI series will be held at the Catamount Outdoor Family…

Wallace + Wallace return as title sponsor for DarkCross – A Night-time Cyclocross Race on September 15th, 2012, at the Red River Co-op Speedway in Ste. Adolphe, Manitoba. $3500 purse up for grabs at an event that combines the energy of a bicycle race with the social vibe of a dance club, creating an atmosphere…

Men’s National Champion Jeremy Powers visited the Mid Atlantic’s BikeReg.com Super 8 Series over the weekend to put on a skills clinic. While he was there he won the Men’s Elite race, stole the Verge Leader’s Jersey, and won a lot of new fans. Powers’ original plans only included running his Jeremy Powers Washington DC…

It wasn’t a surprise to see a Sky Procycling rider on the top step of the podium today at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. The surprise was that it was Sky’s Lars-Petter Nordhaug on the top step and not his teammate and pre-race favorite Edvald Boasson-Hagen taking the win at the end of the…

His tenth place finish at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec made François Parisien not only the highest placed Canadian but also marked a personal victory after a very tough year for the Spidertech p/b C10 rider. “It’s the best result of my career. Today (Friday), our team had a perfect race except for my…

Bruno Langlois wanted to show himself at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on Friday. Mission accomplished for the 31-year old rider of the Garneau-Quebecor team who rode on the Canadian team at the WorldTour race. Langlois not only spent two laps off the front, in front of fans, family and international TV audience but…

Once again, a late race attack delivered the win at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec. Two years ago, Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) made his move in the final kilometer on the false flat to the finish. Last year, Philippe Gilbert (then with Omega Pharma Lotto) attacked the break multiple times in the final two kilometers…

Heading into the final day of the 21st THF Realty Gateway Cup, the skies cleared for a technical ten-corner course to close out the annual series of Labor Day criteriums in St. Louis, MO. The men’s race at the Benton Park Classic was an explosive affair as the field launched break after break to shatter…

The 27th running of the Giro della Montagna marked the third stop of the THF Realty Gateway Cup and while violent storms no longer threatened, the temperamental weather served up some surprises for the pro fields. The women’s race began somewhat tentatively as riders spent much of the race sizing each other up on a…

With a tenuous weather outlook for day two of the THF Realty Gateway Cup, riders gathered for another round of criterium racing in the streets of St. Louis, MO. Marking another year in the Francis Park neighborhood of the Midwest river town, the Tour de Francis showcased a demanding course that proved resistant to the…

As the 21st running of the Tour de Lafayette kicked off the 2012 Gateway Cup, all eyes were on the impending storms blowing up from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac. Amateur races were subjected to heavy downpours and tornado warnings throughout the day. When night began to fall for the pro fields taking the course,…

With 40 km to go in stage 2 of the Giro della Toscana -Memorial Michela Fanini, the battle for the stage win and the leader’s jersey was to be decided in a break of 10 riders. The riders which included Team TIBCO’s Lauren Hall and Jamie Bookwalter of Team USA, escaped after seven kilometers into…

Six under-23 riders for the USA are contesting the seven-day Tour de l’Avenir, the final and toughest event of the UCI Under-23 Nations’ Cup, in France this week. The race started Sunday, August 26 and continues until Saturday, September 1. Four riders, Ian Boswell, Nathan Brown, U23 national road champion Rob Bush and Larry Warbasse…

After 19 years in the pro peloton, George Hincapie of the BMC Racing Team launched down a start ramp for the final time on Sunday. The final stage of the USA Pro Challenge was also the final race for the three-time USA National Champion. Fans took to twitter to thank him and say goodbye.

Taylor Phinney of the BMC Racing Team won his second individual time trial of the season on Sunday’s final stage of the USA Pro Challenge. Phinney averaged nearly 53 kilometers an hour on the 15.3 km flat course and stopped the clock with a time of 17 minutes and 25 seconds, 10 seconds faster than…

In a battle between the seasoned veterans and the newcomers, Stage 7 of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge came down to a matter of seconds in the Individual Time Trial that saw veteran Christian Vande Velde (USA) of Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda take home the overall win. In the “race of truth,” Taylor Phinney (USA) of BMC Racing…

Throughout the week of racing at the USA Pro Challenge, Tejay van Garderen of the BMC Racing team has shown that he’s the strongest rider at the race while the Garmin-Sharp squad would get the strongest team title. Their two respective leaders, van Garderen and Christian Vande Velde have been locked into a duel, tied…

It’s certainly not the first time that Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) has won a race by attacking on the final climb but today was the first time that he achieved just that in front of a huge crowd in Boulder, his home for the past three years. And not only that, he did by beating ProTour…